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Nearly three years after signing a civilian nuclear supply treaty with India, the Federal Government has confirmed that the first shipment of uranium has left Australia for the subcontinent. The 2014 deal to sell uranium to India was the first time Australia had agreed to sell nuclear fuel to a ...

Environmentalists are calling for a state-wide ban on mining in rivers and streams in Queensland. It comes after revelations that two mining applications are being considered for a parcel of land recently purchased by the Queensland Government. The property in question is in Far North ...

Traditional owners of the abandoned Rum Jungle uranium mine 100 kilometres south of Darwin want the Commonwealth to hurry up and rehabilitate the site. Rum Jungle was a Commonwealth-backed venture that produced uranium for the nuclear weapons programs of the US and British Governments in the ...

South Australia's Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission has heard that uranium enrichment and nuclear energy could become an increasingly important part of Australia's effort to reduce its carbon emission in response to climate change. That's the view of one of Australia's leading authorities ...